Odessa, TX · Public · Every figure is for a student starting in fall 2027. We work each one out again whenever we update the site.
How to pay for The University of Texas Permian Basin
What a year costs here, what brings it down, and what a SmartTuition plan could save a family like yours.
Paying for four years here
The government gives no price after grants here for this income range.
A SmartTuition plan shows what to pay from where, each semester, using your own numbers.
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A family of four with good credit and $500 a month for college. How we worked these out ↓
A year at UT Permian Basin
| Full price, in state | $26,974 |
| Full price, out of state | $39,612 |
| After grants, at your income | not reported |
What can bring it down
Merit scholarships. $1,000 to $4,000 a year, from a 3.25 GPA (and 1 more below).
UT Permian Basin's promise. Falcon Free: tuition and mandatory fees covered for Texas residents with family income of $100,000 or less. The conditions ↓
Pay less for college
A SmartTuition plan shows what to pay from where, each semester.
At UT Permian Basin, our scenarios for Texas households with good parent credit show a SmartTuition plan saving a median of about $5,000 over four years. How we worked this out ↓
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What the University of Texas Permian Basin says it awards for grades and test scores.
$1,000 to $4,000 a year, from a 3.25 GPA
GPA 3.9 or higher $4,000 a year Falcon Elite Scholarship GPA 3.7 or higher $3,000 a year Falcon Excellence Scholarship GPA 3.35 or higher $2,000 a year Falcon Achievement Scholarship GPA 3.25 or higher $1,000 a year Falcon Recognition Scholarship UTPB uses the unweighted GPA on a 4.0 scale. Your student must be admitted by April 15 for the award to be guaranteed. To keep it, your student needs a 2.5 GPA in college.
The Presidential Scholarship covers full tuition and designated fees for up to four years. It is highly competitive, usually for the top 5% of the class, and needs an application with an essay and a recommendation by December 1.
Enter your student's GPA in our college comparison to see this scholarship beside your family's price.
Published guarantees you may qualify for
We do not assume you qualify for any of these, and our plans never bank on them. Check each against your own situation with the aid office.
Falcon Free: tuition and mandatory fees covered for Texas residents with family income of $100,000 or less
Household income up to $100,000. Covers tuition, fees.
- For first-time degree-seeking students, for the fall and spring terms only. Funds are limited, so it is not open to students who start in spring or summer.
- The student must finish the steps by June 1, enroll full time, and qualify again each year, for up to eight semesters.
“will cover tuition and mandatory fees (for the fall and spring terms only) for first-time undergraduate, degree-seeking Texas residents with a family-adjusted gross income (AGI) that does not exceed $100,000. Students qualify annually for up to eight semesters of full-time undergraduate enrollment. Full-time is defined as 12 hours or more each semester. The Falcon Free Program is an annual program that starts each Fall term. Students must qualify each year for Falcon Free.”
How we worked these out
The family
A family of four with good parent credit and $500 a month to put toward college, and the savings you pick. In state, the grants are what UT Permian Basin reports families at that income got, on average. Your own will differ, and a family with no aid pays close to the full price. Out of state, there are no grants: the price is before any scholarship from the college.
What a SmartTuition plan saves
The difference, over four years, between a SmartTuition plan and the standard approach: savings first, then loans for the rest. It counts loan interest and the federal tax credit.
The $5,000 in the “Pay less for college” box near the top of this page is the median saving in UT Permian Basin's own scenarios. Each scenario is a household that lives in Texas, with an income from $45,000 to $200,000 and savings of none, $40,000 or $100,000 in a 529. We price UT Permian Basin at the aid it reports for that income.
Every scenario has parents with good credit and $500 a month toward college. The card above uses the same two. A scenario where the parents would borrow more than $65,000 is left out.
The prices by income
- They describe students who got aid.
- “Over $110,000” has no upper limit, so it averages families just over $110,000 with far wealthier ones. A family at $115,000 should expect to pay less than it shows.
- Each range is reported on its own, so the prices do not always rise with income.
Where the prices come from
Where the prices come from: The University of Texas Permian Basin's own 2026-27 tuition, fees, housing, food and books, from its website, carried forward to 2027 at 3.0% a year. The grants are the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard (2025-26 figures), carried forward the same way. Each price after grants is the cost less those grants. The out-of-state figure uses the published out-of-state tuition instead. The average price after grants counts the students who get federal aid. Your own figure will be different.
The University of Texas Permian Basin's own budget for 2026-27 is $29,938. It also counts costs the university doesn't bill for, such as travel and personal spending. We leave those out.
SmartTuition.ai is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by The University of Texas Permian Basin. Aid policies change; check current terms with the college's aid office.
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